Benjamin Madley An American genocide

the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873

"The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive...

Engels | 692 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2016

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